Freedom Financial Planning to offer free advice to schools

Nicola Brittain
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Derbyshire-based financial planners, Freedom Financial Planning, is to offer free financial advice to a local school in aid of Financial Planning Week.

Financial Planning Week has been organised by the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) and will be take place between the 26 November and 2 December. Qualified financial planning, Nick Heys, will be teaching a class of 10 and 11-year-olds attending Whaley Bridge Primary School about the importance of budgets, pensions and savings. Heys said: "When I was at school we had lessons on numeracy but were not told how to look after money. Just by starting with the basics and teaching children how to manage their pocket money may help society in the future. Teaching children money management...

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